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Right-wing media wins

Inside the partisan fight for your news feed: How ideologues, opportunists, growth hackers, and Internet marketers built a massive new universe of partisan news on the web and on Facebook. What if the right-wing media wins? Conservative critics of the press want more than just a louder voice — they want the New York Times and the Washington Post to go away. Ready for Trump TV? Andy Kroll goes inside Sinclair Broadcasting’s plot to take over your local news. “I don’t feel it has any place in a local newscast”: An anonymous Sinclair journalist sounds off on his employer’s pro-Trump segments. Is Fox News hurting Donald Trump? Lucia Graves on the Wall Street Journal’s Trump problem. Brian Beutler on the seeds of media self-sabotage.